Oxytone

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Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Script error: No such module "Side box". In linguistics, an oxytone (Template:IPAc-en; from the Template:Langx, Script error: No such module "lang"., 'sharp-sounding'Script error: No such module "Unsubst".) is a word with either stress (in stress-based languages) or a high accent (in languages with a pitch accent) on the ultimate syllable (that is, the last syllable).[1]Template:Rp Examples of this in English are the words correct and reward.

It contrasts with paroxytone (stress or a high accent on the penultimate — second-to-last — syllable), and proparoxytone (stress or a high accent on the antepenultimate — third-to-last — syllable).

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